Engaging Your Employees

Mary Lorenz of CareerBuilder.com recently published an article focusing on management of employees. The ten habits that are pointed out in the article are great and include – Don’t assume people understand your reasoning behind decisions…

A Behavioral Driven Performance Model

While it is a trend to create a diverse team in a workplace, I have found that companies are still using a standard performance model across the board to measure their behaviorally diverse team’s performance.
Several months ago I started evaluating consulting company’s performance evaluations. With much dismay I have found that most [...]

Advisors Can Differentiate By Integrating Behavioral Finance Strategies

Recently, Merrill Lynch and Capgemini have issued a very important research study which demonstrates how much investors confidence has been eroded by the turbulent markets. Investors are still very wary of the future.  Click Here to read the article.
The article points out that the following:

Investors want a more active relationship with their advisors, including a [...]

Dream Bigger Than You Can Think

In recent times I have done a lot of talking about your “success impediments”. What is getting in your way to success? A lot of the time it is our own mind. We allow negative thinking to get in the way. This will be true at any time particularly when times are [...]

The Big Question

Last week I participated in a learning program for fast growth businesses conducted by Verne Harnish (founder of Gazelles, Inc) who is world renowned as “The Growth Guy”. Verne has run training workshops for and coached many great entrepreneurs all over the world. He has a very straightforward approach to helping [...]

Uncovering Human Behavior Risks

Generally in business, and particularly in financial services, people associate risk with the markets or economy. What we fail to drill down into are the risks caused by human behavior. Another way of looking at this is to consider how people handle the market risks. What decisions do they make? What [...]